Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982.

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Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982.

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Manuscripts and notebook. Includes typescripts for: Round Trip (4 p., 1958), short story, with 1980 letter to Baraka from an academic colleague who found the manuscript in his files; The Black Non-Conformist (3 p.), a proposal for a sequel to Blues People; Madheart: a morality play (15 p.) first produced in San Francisco in 1967 and first published in Four Revolutionary Plays (1969); Norman's date (13 p., photocopy of typescript), short story, with Sterling Lord Agency correspondence; and The myth of Negro literature (10 p.), speech given originally at the Society of African Culture in the mid-1960s. Also includes: manuscript notebook, ca. 1966-1967, including complete texts of poems, plays, sketches, outlines, and two short plays, "Bd. of education" and "Police", as well as a partial draft of "The life sign"; and The practice of new nationalism (9 p., 1969 Dec.-1970 Jan.), holograph manuscript, first published in The journal of black poetry and later collected in Raise race rays raze (1971).

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Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

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Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in 1934. He was educated at Rutgers and Howard Universities, graduating from the latter at the age of 19. In 1958 he founded the influential poetry magazine Yugen, which ran until 1962. His writings, including fiction, essays, and poetry, appeared in such publications as The nation, Evergreen review, Downbeat, and The floating bear. From the description of Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982. (University of California, Berkele...